Analysis of At the Railway Station, Upways
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
'There is not much that I can do,
For I've no money that's quite my own!'
Spoke up the pitying child--
A little boy with a violin
At the station before the train came in,--
'But I can play my fiddle to you,
And a nice one 'tis, and good in tone!'
The man in the handcuffs smiled;
The constable looked, and he smiled too,
As the fiddle began to twang;
And the man in the handcuffs suddenly sang
With grimful glee:
'This life so free
Is the thing for me!'
And the constable smiled, and said no word,
As if unconscious of what he heard;
And so they went on till the train came in--
The convict, and boy with the violin.
Scheme | ABCDDAB CAXXEEEFFDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 111101111 1101001 010110001 1010010110 111111011 001110101 010011 010010111 10100111 0010011001 111 1111 10111 0010010111 11101111 0111110110 0100110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 11 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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